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    who is able to hold a big family
    together and look after them.
    
ɔxaɛ̃ [ ˩ \ ] porcupine (?); “hedge-
    hog”; ɔxaɛ̃ rhiɛ̃rhĩ-ũnwɔʋ̃ɛ gbe
    [ ˩ \ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] porcupine is very tasty
    as soup, lit. “makes soup tasty”.
    
ɔxaɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (pl. e-) “palaver-
    decider”: chief; it applies now-
    adays to “warrant-chiefs”
    mostly, i.e. such as take part in
    the jurisdiction of the country;
    ɔxaɛʋ̃ɛ is not as important as
    ogie [ ˩ ˩ ] “ruler”, though all the
    ogies are exaɛʋ̃ɛ at present in
    their quality as members of the
    Council: cf. xa [ / ], ɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˩ ].
    
ɔxɛ 1 [ ˩ ˥ ] stick at the back of a
    yam stack (or rather rack, eɽu
    [ ˩ ˥ ]) sustaining the ugãs (strip-
    ped palm branches) which are
    tied to the main poles (utɔ̃yotɔ).
    
ɔxɛ 2 [ ˩ ˥ ] hunter’s ambush in
    the bush: the ground is cleaned
    and strewn with ashes on ac-
    count of the visibility (ɔxɛ is
    used at night-time); bananas
    are put in the middle to entice
    animals, esp. civet-cats. The
    hunter sits on egba [ ˩ ˥ ], a stick
    with two perches tied across;
    cf. xɛ [ / ].
    
ɔxɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ] (pl. e-) anybody going to,
    or coming from the market:
    (a) passer-by; (b) trader; cf.
    xiɛ̃ [ ˥ ] (?); v. ɔduɛki [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
    
ɔxɛrhɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] a young palm tree (if
    nothing is added, the oil palm
    is understood); ɔxɛrh-ivĩ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]
    young coco-nut palm; cf. Jekri
    ɛkɛtɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ].
    
ɔxiɛ̃kuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] selling on credit; cf.
    xiɛ̃ [ ˥ ]; v. ɔdɛkuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ].
    
ɔxɔ [ ˩ / ] bad deed; cf. xɔ [ / ].
    
ɔxɔe [ ˥ ˩ ] worm; ɔxɔ-tɔ [ ˥ \ ˩ ] earth-
    worm (found in dust-heaps;
    different from ikolo [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ]); ɔxɔ-